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Glengappock Mote
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0298
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0298 (298)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crossmichael
- National Grid reference
- NX 7500 7043
- Latitude
- 55.01270
- Longitude
- -3.95634
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1850); Earthwork Survey (1891); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1928); Other (1951); Other (1973); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1072
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4313
- National record
- record NX 77 SE 9; monument 64735
- Wikidata
- Q31059570
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1892) 'The Motes, Forts, and Doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire. (Part II)' Proc Soc Antiq Scot 26, 117-70
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- RCAHMS (1914) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fifth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, II, county of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh
- Truckell, A E (1972) 'Finds and sites, 1971-72', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, Ser 3, 49